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A few months ago, Alphabet was formed as a new parent company for Google and many of its divisions. The company made abc.xyz its home on the internet, a cute play on its name. Yesterday, Domain Investing found that Google recently privately acquired abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com from someone who …

The strange beauty of paleo art<p>I have a theory about why kids love dinosaurs. You might think it’s their size, their ferocity, the number and sharpness of their teeth. It is all of these things, but it is something else, too.<p>Dinosaurs are remote from us in time. They belong to an alien realm. They …

British Muslim leaders have launched a magazine to counteract Islamic State (formerly ISIS/ISIL) propaganda, which seeks to draw in young social media users and lure them to join the extremist group.<p>The magazine, called “<i>Haqiq</i>,” or Reality, has been created by the network of religious leaders at …

Like any good scientist, Stephen Hawking has taken his time. A Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) that collected questions from the site's users back in July is today being answered comprehensively by the world's most famous living physicist. Unsurprisingly, given his high profile and the extended period …

A few months after the liberation of Kobanî—the Syrian city that lies on the northern border with Turkey—many families have started to come back to what is left of their houses. With the hope of rebuilding their life and their city, they clean their houses of dead bodies and bury the fighters who …